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“You can't magic yourself back 10 years.”

“Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.”

Years Shows Together Struggle Magic Minutes Events Needed Years Ago Difficulty Corporate Tournaments My Struggle Magic Show

Author:Gary McCord

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.”

Giving Years Children Feelings Reading Chance Wonder Magic Tales Classic Fairy Fairy Tale Stardust Sense Of Wonder

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.”

Years Believe Shows Interest Magic Magician Magic Show

Author:David Pogue

“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.”

Thinking Feels Years Feelings Process Brain Millions Magic Evolution Flow Response Species Currents Aids Psychological Chemicals Electrical Procreation

Author:Alan Lightman

“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!”

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.”

Years Sports Magic Platforms Tickets Best Year

Author:Dennis Eckersley

“There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.”

People Knows Years Shows Felt Lines Wonderful Magic Elements Sticks Rings Factors Right Time Through The Years

Author:America Ferrera

“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.”

“No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.”

Years Has Beens Magic England Buried Mills Cemetery Shady Cambridge

Author:Sophie Hannah

“You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.”

Years Magic Minutes Pure Six Eighty

Author:George Carlin

“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.”

Years Enough Desire Three Magic Tree Expression Thousand Mountain China Frustrated Thousand Years Monk Halfway Legendary Inexplicable Monasteries Bamboo Roost Swordsman

Book:Broken Homes

Source: Broken Homes

“You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.”

People Knows Want Years Believe Long Process Difficult Challenges Know How Magic Television Months Shops Magician Builder

Author:Criss Angel

“I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.”

Trying Years Kind Feelings Found Stuff Acting Audience Five Magic Cards Five Years Shakes Coins Gigs Five Year Olds Good Living Cobwebs

Author:Steve Valentine

“Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.”

World Years Littles Stills Magic Months Boat Islands Leisure Sailing

Author:Renzo Piano

“Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.”

Years Beautiful Asks Answers Race Practice Magic Prepared Ask Me Drag Wands

Author:RuPaul

“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”

People Writing Years Kind Novel Magic Century Strange Research Vampire Witch Reluctant Intriguing

Author:Deborah Harkness

“The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.”

Years Firsts Book Helping Magic Mines Chinese Legends Monkeys Plato Adapted Thirteen Picture Books Prodigies Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Nick Flynn

“Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master, And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe, We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere, The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.”

Men Want Years Dream Magic Masters Years Ago Dear Hunger Disaster Tragic Heels Toes Alas Weariness Arcadia

Book:Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.”

People Thinking Love Years Kind Happens Wanted Together Fall Magic Mets Husband Conflict Years Ago Falling In Love My Husband Capture Recovering Nantucket

Author:Nancy Thayer

“I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.”

Years Kids Hours Magic Adults Stores Hotel Vegas Playgrounds

Author:John Francis Daley

“Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.”

“It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.”

Years Has Beens Views Impossible Magic Modern Method Ancient Point Of View Strikes Flight Isolation Aviation Sparks Aircraft Collision Accessibility Modern History

Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT

Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT

“Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My vacation will free me from burnout," then you`re waiting for a few days out of the year to make up for many days of stress. Instead, you have to be able to take mini-vacations on a daily basis.”

Ifs Years Philosophy Moments Able Life Is Waiting Understanding Magic Bases Stress Critical Daily Life Vacation Burnout Magic Moments

Author:Tony Robbins

“I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.”

Years Littles Care Sports Taken Five Magic Lessons Beats Don't Care I Don't Care Five Years Hats Five Year Olds Capes Jocks Top Hats

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.”

People World Way Years Kind Real Ends Done Facts Happens Left Business Millions Focus Magic Reaching National Geographic

Author:Steve Case

“I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.”

Years I Can Reality Film Magic Hopefully

Author:Woody Allen

“I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.”

Years Four Magic Four Years Indonesia Trance

Author:Julie Taymor

“The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.”

Years Mind Matter Moments Wish Clear Magic Gratitude Quiet Crucial New Year Joyful What Matters Astonishment New Year Wishes Shortness Shortness Of Life

Author:Martha Beck

“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.”

Years Art Stills Moments Born Five Alive Magic Music Is Years Ago Twenties Excited Hungry Five Years Motivated Twenty Five

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.”

Years Song Magic Heard Masters Years Ago Connected Interpretation Demos

Author:Q-Tip

“I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book that I did and dreaming about being a comic book artist. That's what the magic is, everything else is just production and a job.”

Knows Years Book Dream Kids Jobs Artist Pleasure Magic Productions Comic Twelve Comic Book

Author:Marko Djurdjevic

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Children Stories Found Lost Magic Needed If I Could Telling The Truth Swear Chasing Thirteen Vindication Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.”

Ifs Knows Years Numbers Magic Cancer Smoke Cigarette Lungs Lung Cancer

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.”

Ifs Years Made Kids Creative Magic Musician Inspired

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.”

Way Years Made Two Done Use Shows Light Running Wanted Easy Magic Week Feet Bottom Theatre Brilliant Broadway Clown Athletic Mama Two Weeks Bounce Close Friends Rogues Prosthetics Stilts

Author:Alan Tudyk

“Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.”

Thinking Years States Done Shows Loses Animal United United States Magic Late Years Ago Spread Eras Going Away Reign Vegas Las Vegas Nudity Venues Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.”

Ifs Thinking Years Shows Kids Magic Tricks Dove Ed Sullivan

Author:David Copperfield

“You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.”

Years Wanted Turns Wish Stuff Walks Accepting Fire Magic Succeed Shops Lit Magician Accept Me Oh My Gosh

Author:David Copperfield

“Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.”

People Knows Years Hard Three Names Views Attitude Comedy Four Magic Hard Work Point Of View Stealing Invention Four Years

Author:David Copperfield

“I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you need people who are not afraid to make the case for the United States, who are not afraid to stand their ground, not afraid to be isolated in international organizations when that's the correct approach for our diplomacy. This is a cultural change that has to be effected through incentive systems, promotion systems, career training systems. This is not something that you can do with the stroke of a magic wand, it's going to take years to make this change.”

“I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens.”

Years Bigs Happens Magic One Thing Needed Studios Revival Down Time

Author:Kenny Chesney

“We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.”

Knows Years Mother Poor Rooms Records Too Much Player Magic Six Seven Eight Sat Apartment Old You Record Players

Author:Jon Gordon

“If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.”

People Ifs Inspirational Years Long Has Beens Seems Today Able Magic Amount Hundred Years Ago All Things Distance Flying Granted Data Long Distance Transmit Oracles

Author:Elon Musk

“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.”

Years Long Cities Magic Months Mets Paper Years Ago Thirds Dull Papers Magician Wednesday

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

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